Jacqueline Cochran All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race entrant
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes The first entrant in the Jacqueline Cochran All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, right to left, Ben Hitchens, Dee Thurmond and Bob Holloway, with a Holloway-Hitchens aircraft at Van Nuys Airport. Photograph dated May 16, 1949.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Thurmond, Darlene Van Nuys Airport Holloway-Hitchens Aircraft Air pilots--United States Women air pilots--United States Transcontinental flights Jacqueline Cochran All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race Airports--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Airplanes--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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